Ceremony times

My plan so far is for the ceremony to start at 4:30-5:00 I’m having the ceremony and reception at the same place and 5-6 cocktail hour while we get family portraits. Are you having a first look?

View Quoted Comment Oh we haven’t discuss that yet but i think so given she wants to take pictures before hand. Your time line sounds very similar to what we want

View Quoted Comment Yea we are having one as well and now I’m just trying to figure out the rest of the timeline I been looking online for ideas I got some from this timeline

View Quoted Comment Definitely borrowing that

Depends on the time of year and your location, and honestly what day of the week your wedding is. If your wedding is on a sunday you don't necessarily want to start too late

You'll probably want to sneak away from your reception for pictures during "Golden Hour" which is around sunset.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_hour_(photography)

View Quoted Comment On the east coast, and doing in in march on a river bank. Its going to be on Saturday

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You probably want to start your ceremony late afternoon or early evening, so that timeline Favoila provided would work

As AJ said, the best time to plan around would be sunset time. Our wedding at the beginning of June is in New England and sunset will be at around 8 o’clock, so we planned dinner to be over before that/at that time. But keep in mind they will serve you first, so you may have to leave before everyone else is done eating to get those golden hour shots in

Nearly every wedding we have attended started at 3:30 with a 4:30 reception starting time and no issues with lighting or pictures, etc. We’re aiming at a similar timeline while partying as long as we can at the same venue (no curfew was a requirement for us).

We are doing noon for high sun and early light. It makes for pretty pictures in a country setting venue. It depends on your venue and what kind of photo you're going for. Night time photos are great for an indoor scene so the lighting can really shine, and sunset photos are beautiful for a beachy vibe.

We're doing a three o'clock ceremony!

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if this can help i am from nj and we just got married saturday May 15th our elopement started at 2pm since you are getting married in march it may be a little cooler. This is the atlantic ocean at the jersey shore

at the jersey shore here is some photos. this is the lavalette gazebo in the afternoon

We have our venue from 4-10pm. Our ceremony will be indoors but we still needed time to set up, get ready, and take pictures. We decided to have our ceremony start at 6pm.